Bleh.

2 out of the 3 big events today really, really sucked. General feeling of today = :(

Jon Schmidt and Stephen Hatfield

So. The most exciting thing that has been happening recently is the Stephen Hatfield weekend, which we're currently in the middle of. We don't have to be back at school for dinner/warm-up before tonight's concert until 5:00, but there isn't quite enough time to come home in between, so I'm lurking in the Newport Way library doing this. (I definitely didn't know this place existed until today. Huh.)

Anyways. So I discovered this guy, Jon Schmidt, who's this amazing amazing amazing pianist and his music is incredible. This is my favorite one. Listen to it.



So that's him.

And then a certain Canadian named Mr. Stephen Hatfield. Coming into rehearsal yesterday morning, I honestly didn't know what he was going to be like. I had heard that he was crazier than Francisco Nunez, which I found hard to believe. But he is, in fact, extraordinarily crazy and energetic and dynamic and funny and an amazing musician. Before this weekend, I was lamenting the fact that I'd be at school all weekend, but all the rehearsals with him have been so much fun. And he interjects everything with random anecdotes of his every so often.

The thing I like about both him and Francisco Nunez is that both of them work with young choirs a lot, so they know how to work with kids and keep a crowd of kids entertained and focused for a long time. Although, in my opinion, you can't really compare Hatfield and Nunez; they're so different. But both extraordinarily awesome.

The best part of yesterday was when Hatfield related a few of the pieces of music we were singing to physics, and he talked about how Einstein actually discovered his theory of relativity because of music and all this awesome physics shenanigans. It kind of blew my mind. And then after the chamber rehearsal I went and talked to him re: the physics and it was awesome. And THEN after the concert, which was freakin' EPIC, I was a gigantic nerd and went and got him to sign my copy of La Lluvia (sorry, Ms. Seaton, I stole another piece of sheet music) and he wrote "For Hannah, Lady Einstein; it was a relatively fabulous day." FTW.

So then today, we had physics all morning (woooooo) and then Nancy and I went to Taco Time and then when we were lurking in the commons waiting for the massed choir rehearsal to start, Ms. Seaton and Hatfield came in and I waved to him and he came over and he remembered who I was and what my name was and it was exciting. And we had another brief physics conversation. He knows a lot of really random exciting things.

Wow. I just rambled for a thousand years.

So yeah. The concert with all the other schools is tonight, and that should be really cool. But then I have to go home and do all my homework that I didn't have time for this weekend...fail.

But yeah. Good, good weekend.

Random happenstances.

This is going to be one of those lovely braindumps. Not a happy list, not a rant list, nothing in particular. Just some ramblings.

My friends Johnathan and Jackson, their band is awesome. I've been listening to some of their stuff on their site and I really need to actually go to one of their gigs sometime. They have a song called "Attack of the Pegasi," as in plural of Pegasus. It's fabulous.

We're leaving school tomorrow at 10:00 to drive to the airport to go to Spokane for Knowledge Bowl State (WHOOOO!) On an entirely different note, I first typed "Knowledge Bowel" just now. Completely different meaning. Gross.

Castle FTW. My mode of procrastination the past several days has been watching behind the scenes stuff with Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic and it's quite fun. They're like a married couple. She's hysterical/crazy/random/badass/Canadian/adorable. Platonic lady crush. In one such interview, she demonstrated how to properly kill someone with a knife (a skill she learned for some movie). Whilst wearing heels. Badass.

I can't decide whether I want warm springy weather or wintery weather still. I don't mind either.

My dad's brief rant about the casting choice of Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia kind of made my night just now.

I'm REALLY REALLY REALLY excited for Camp Huston this summer.

I had something else to say, too, but it just completely fell out of my brain. Fail.

Nuvole Bianche

Wow. I haven't written anything here in a looooooooong time.

Today was kind of suckish, so I'm going to make a list of things that have made me really happy in the past several whiles.

1. The adorable old couple holding hands and saying grace together at Taco Time on Friday.
2. Facebook chatting with Ally tonight and her telling me that something I said made her literally laugh out loud in the middle of the library. And that Ziggy said hi. :)
3. This amazing, amazing book that I just finished reading, City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. It's the first book in a fantasy series about demon hunters and magical stuff and werewolves and hot men and all that lovely stuff I like. It's excellent. And it's set in New York.
4. The look on Evan Lysacek's face when he realized he had won the gold medal.
5. Seeing the sloth right up next to the window at the nocturnal house at the zoo the day before it closed.
6. Getting a letter back from Homer Hickam!!!
7. My stuffed tree kangaroo, Sebastian.
8. The fact that we have a Dumbledore's Army at school now.
9. Chicken bacon ranch flatbread sandwiches and macaroni-n-cheese for dinner tonight. Nom.
10. Watching Olympic curlers screaming "HARD! HARD! HARD!" nonstop.
11. On that note, the Norwegian Curling team's pants.
12. I found this song and it's among the most incredible things I've ever heard. It falls shortly after Bon Jovi's rendition of "Hallelujah," which has the permanent #1 spot.



I should do happy lists more often. They're nicer than furious rants about the suckish parts of life. I'll remember that. :)